{"id":24229,"date":"2017-02-16T09:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=24229"},"modified":"2020-06-18T14:28:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T18:28:41","slug":"a-bridge-of-hope-to-russia-ukraine-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/storiesoffaith\/2017\/02\/16\/a-bridge-of-hope-to-russia-ukraine-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bridge of Hope to Russia, Ukraine &#038; Beyond &#8211; Slavic Gospel Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Authored by Rev. Bill Ball, Executive Director, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgacanada.ca\/\">Slavic Gospel Association of Canada<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Slavic Gospel Association has been ministering to Slavic people since 1934.\u00a0 Peter Deyneka left the small village of Staramlynia, Belarus after encouragement from his parents in 1914.\u00a0 At 16 years of age he climbed on a train, then a ship, both of which he had never seen before in his life, and traveled to America in search of resources.\u00a0 His family was starving.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did he provide for his immediate family, but began a mission that has reached across what we refer to as the Commonwealth of Independent States.\u00a0 We now partner with faithful servants in nearly 15 nations, reaching out to people in local communities.<\/p>\n<p>Today our focus includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Missionary Pastors<\/li>\n<li>Orphan\u2019s Ministry<\/li>\n<li>Transitional Orphans\u2019 Homes<\/li>\n<li>Camp Ministry<\/li>\n<li>Youth Ministry<\/li>\n<li>Rehab Centres<\/li>\n<li>Theological Training<\/li>\n<li>and a special Christmas program called Immanuel\u2019s Child<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a faith based mission we rely solely upon the generous gifts of individuals, churches and foundations to meet the needs of troubled humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Savich lives in the Volyn Region of northwest Ukraine.\u00a0 SGA Canada has supported the Savich family since 2003.\u00a0 Not only does he serve as a local pastor, with his wife and 7 children, but has an extensive Compassion ministry in many villages.\u00a0 Every day they face impossible situations humanly speaking.<\/p>\n<p>More recently war between Russia and Ukraine has created another humanitarian disaster.\u00a0\u00a0 Since February 2014, 1.5 million Ukrainians have fled the country.\u00a0 Another 1.75 million are internally displaced and over 10,000 have died.\u00a0 This has had a profound effect in every part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir does what he can to bring comfort and care to hurting people such as:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tatiana<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24232\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24232\" class=\"wp-image-24232 \" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Tatiana-300x225.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Tatiana-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Tatiana-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Tatiana.jpg 863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tatiana with her daughter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tatiana lives in the village of Romaniv.\u00a0 Our church members\u00a0who live in the village told us about the family and suggested for us to help the family.\u00a0 The family is experiencing hard times.\u00a0 The husband left the wife with four little children.\u00a0 The children go to a kindergarten and to school.\u00a0 The mother can\u2019t get a job as it\u2019s a real problem now and because of that she can hardly earn the family living and feed her children.\u00a0 Tatiana was very happy and thankful when we came to see her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lilya<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24230\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24230\" class=\"wp-image-24230\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lilya1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"lilya1\" width=\"265\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lilya1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lilya1.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vladimir visiting Lilya and her family<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lilya lives in the village of Alexandria.\u00a0 The father left the family.\u00a0 Lilya is a disabled person.\u00a0 She takes care of six daughters.\u00a0 When the youngest daughter had heart problems, we helped them to pay for a heart surgery.\u00a0 Now the family got into new trouble:\u00a0 their second daughter was in a car accident.\u00a0 Doctors didn\u2019t have any hope for life, but praise god, according to the church\u2019s prayers, God showed His amazing mercy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24231\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24231\" class=\"wp-image-24231\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lilya2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"lilya2\" width=\"233\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lilya2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lilya2.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilya&#8217;s daughter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The girl has already had two surgeries.\u00a0 She needs some time for adaptation and then she is going to be operated on again.\u00a0 A titanium plate has to be inserted in her skull, therefore the crushed part of the\u00a0bone (about 7-8 cm) was removed.<\/p>\n<p>We are humbled and grateful by the faithfulness of compassionate Canadians.\u00a0 All across our nation we meet people from every walk of life who assist us in providing for those in great need.\u00a0 Our privilege is to visit communities on both sides of the ocean linking <em>distress<\/em> with <em>provision<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing we cannot meet every request, it is a privilege to partner with many other ministries of similar vision and passion.\u00a0 Together we witness an entire movement making a difference, sharing the love of God in most practical terms.\u00a0 We do all this with excellence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24132 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/seal.png\" alt=\"seal\" width=\"116\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/seal.png 251w, https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/seal-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 116px) 100vw, 116px\" \/>This charity has been certified by the Canadian Council of Christian Charities. 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Bill Ball, Executive Director, Slavic Gospel Association of Canada Slavic Gospel Association has been ministering to Slavic people since 1934.\u00a0 Peter Deyneka left the small village of Staramlynia, Belarus after encouragement from his parents in 1914.\u00a0 At 16 years of age he climbed on a train, then&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/storiesoffaith\/2017\/02\/16\/a-bridge-of-hope-to-russia-ukraine-beyond\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":24230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[240,148],"series":[],"class_list":["post-24229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charities","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24229"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=24229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}